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foreign aid

foreign aid noun: a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.

Noun

foreign aid (countable and uncountable, plural foreign aids)

  1. A voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.
    • Then the Republican-controlled Congress maintained foreign aid at $35bn, as in 2017, with funding for health and food largely unchanged.2018 September 6, “America’s foreign-aid budget has proved surprisingly resilient”, in The Economist, →ISSN

Forms of foreign aid

pluralforeign aids

Questions about foreign aid

What does foreign aid mean?
Foreign aid means a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another.
What part of speech is foreign aid?
Foreign aid is a noun.
What is the plural of foreign aid?
The plural of foreign aid is foreign aids.

Words near foreign aid in the dictionary

  1. foreign accent syndrome
  2. foreign accent syndromes
  3. foreign affairs
  4. foreign agent
  5. foreign agents
  6. foreign aid
  7. foreign aids
  8. foreign bodies
  9. foreign body
  10. foreign correspondent
  11. foreign correspondents

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